I give him credit for stabilizing the debt, but it is stabilized at a level that is too high.

the risk to this country is untenable. Absolutely untenable.

What we need, I believe, is an entire package with everything on the table that deals with fundamental reform of our tax system.

We cannot let deficits act as if they are free money when we do spending increases and tax cuts.

You make the taxpayer four times as worse off as you make the government better off.

A failure to act within that period of time could lead to much more serious consequences.

I hope as we approach Ronald Reagan's 100th anniversary next week we all reflect on how far from being appropriate for today's reality is that message.

I did not support the tax deal at the end of last year. That was a big number in the wrong direction.

I believe this debt threat is an imminent threat to the Nation.

I do not think Congress, the House or the Senate, are going to be very interested in bailouts to States.

the Congress and the policymakers, we have to walk and chew gum at the same time.

there is nobody that could have participated in this process that did not conclude this tax system that we have is just completely out of date.